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R. PERRY. GAR COUPLING.

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No. 352,569. lPatented Nov. 16, 1886.

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"UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD PERRY, OF DUNN, ILLINoIs, ASSIGNOR or sIX-sEvENTIIs TO DAVID PERRY AND WILLIAM T. PERRY, OF RETIIAN'Y, BENJAMIN PERRY, or TODDS POINT, AND MosEs H. PER Y AND s MURL B. PERRY, or DEGA TUR, ILLINOIS, AND MARION s. PERRY, OF sTRATroN, NERRAsKA.

CAR-COUPLING. I

QPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,569, dated November 16, 1886.

Application filed April 15, 1886.- Serial No. 198,941. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RIcnARD PERRY, of

' Dunn, in the county of Moultrie and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in (Jar-Couplings, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a draw-head and latch that will ordinarily hold a coupling-link inclined slightly upward while to acoupling is being made,and that will permit a material horizontal deflection in said link; and it is also my object to provide means whereby the latch may be readily raised and automatically held clear of the link.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of an end of a car, showing my device in position thereon. Fig. 2 is an elevation of thedevice used to hold the coupling-latch out of operation. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section of my draw-head.

a, b, and 0 represent the levers with which my coupling is operated.

d represents a series of radial arms, pivoted to the end of the car above the draw-head and connected by means of suitable rods with levers a b 0, respectively.

e is a pulley located between arms d and the draw-head. 3o fis a chain that connects the arms d with the latch of the draw-head, lug d forming a suitable point of attachment.

g is the draw-head, having link recess 9 and diminished opening 9:.

h represents a latch pivoted in a slot in the draw-head, and provided wit-h horizontal sur face h and Vertical surface h in the relative positions shown. The outer end of the latch conforms in contour to the mouth of the draw- 40 head, and the angle formed by surfaces h and h is located slightly. in the rear of the smallest diameter of throat g, in order that the front end of the link may be slightly elevated lings, and in order that a coupling maybe readily made without forcing the end of the link against the inner surface of the recess.

When the arms d are in the position shown in Fig. 1, the chainf permits the latch to rest on the link. When the arms d are in the position shown in Fig. 2, the latch is raised clear of the interior of the draw-head. In the firstmentioned position the weight of the latch makes its position stable, and in the last-mentioned position the connection of the chain with the arms is carried past the vertical center and the weight'of the latch is again utilized in making the position secure.

If, under any circumstances, the weight of the latch should be insufficient to secure it in its different positions, aspring 'of necessary strength may be used to assist the depression.

By the use of my devicea car may be readily and effectively coupled and uncoupled from the side or top of the same, so avoiding the necessity of exposing the operator to danger of being crushed between the cars, and cars of 70 differing heights may be coupled together with-- out bent links.

The weight of the latch on the link presses theinner end of the same downward and causesa consequent elevation in its outer end. This elevation should be such as to carry the link toward the center of the mouth of a coupling of medium height, and in case of a variation in the height of the coupling the link will become deflected either upward or downward by the inclined mouth of the draw-head and accommodate itself to the different elevation. In effecting this result the enlarged recess of the draw-head and the pivoting peculiarity of the latch are both utilized.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In draw -heads for car-couplings, the conformable link-guide herein .set forth, consisting in the combination of head g, having recess g and diminished throat g, and latch h, having horizontal under surface, h, normally resting in recess 9 o'na line approximately horizontal with the lower surface of the throat,

and also having a catch, h, slightly in the rear of the narrowest portion of the throat, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. Radial arms d, having vertical rotation 5 approximating a quarter-revolution, lug (1, so

located on arms d that the motion of said arms will carry the lug from a position approximately horizontal with the pivot of the arms to a position above and slightly past the ver- 10 tical of said pivot, a chain running over a guide-pulley and connecting the arms with a latch in the draw-head, and readily-accessible levers connected with the arms, allin combination, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I sign my name in the I 5 presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RICHARD PERRY.

Attest:

M. H. PERRY, G. G. CLARK. 

